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Get the Tenmile, OR local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
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Tenmile Lake is named after the creek, which is about 10 miles (16 km) south of Winchester Bay. This community, at the mouth of the Umpqua River, was the earliest pioneer village along this part of the coast. Although the lake's official name is Tenmile Lake, it was formerly called Johnson Lake and South Tenmile Lake. [4]
Tenmile Post Office was so-named because a pioneer drove his cattle from Happy Valley in Douglas County to an area now known as Tenmile Valley. [3] The distance between the two places was about 10 miles. [3] The post office was established in 1870 as "Ten Mile" and changed to "Tenmile" in 1918. [3]
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Tenmile Lake is the largest and southernmost of a chain of lakes that formed behind a ridge of dunes along the Oregon Coast south of the Umpqua River.The lakes developed after rising sea levels, driven by post-glacial warming, drowned the lower reaches of ancestral Tenmile Creek and its tributaries.
People walk with umbrellas as rain falls in Salem in 2019. Another round of heavy rainfall will hit Oregon over the next few days, but it’s probably not enough to bring flooding, said National ...
Tenmile is an unincorporated community in Coos County, Oregon, United States. [1] It is about 8 miles (13 km) south of Winchester Bay and one mile (1.6 km) west of Lakeside, on U.S. Route 101 next to Tenmile Creek and the Oregon Dunes. [2] Tenmile Lake was named for Tenmile Creek, which was said to be ten miles south of Winchester Bay. [3]